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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 15:54:45 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: Replace ->launder_folio() with flush and wait
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On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 10:36:28AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> There are some places that should perhaps be using kiocb_invalidate_pages()
> and kiocb_invalidate_post_direct_write() instead - assuming Christoph has no
> objection to the latter function being exported.

These are intended as helpers for direct I/O implementation, so I
very much expected them to eventually get exported.